Hinton
Hinton is a town of almost 10,000 people on the Yellowhead Highway in the Alberta Rockies region of Alberta. Hinton sells itself as a gateway town to the Rockies, and also for its beaver boardwalk and surrounding parkland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 9,880 residents
- Description: town in Alberta, Canada
- Also known as: “Hinton, Alberta”
- Neighbors: Grande Cache
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hinton station.
Hinton station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Hinton station is a Via Rail station in Hinton, Alberta. It is on the Canadian National Railway mainline and is served by Via Rail's The Canadian as a flag stop.
Hinton
- Categories: town in Alberta and locality
- Location: Alberta Rockies, Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.3991° or 53° 23′ 57″ northLongitude
-117.5887° or 117° 35′ 19″ westPopulation
9,880Elevation
1,022 metres (3,353 feet)IATA airport code
YJPUnited Nations Location Code
CA HNTOpen location code
95549CX6+JGOpenStreetMap ID
node 51973226OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
5975503Wikidata ID
Q1016692
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Hinton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هينتون”
- Asturian: “Hinton”
- Atikamekw: “Hinton”
- Bulgarian: “Хинтън”
- Cebuano: “Hinton”
- Chinese: “欣頓”
- Chinese: “欣顿”
- Dutch: “Hinton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هينتون”
- Esperanto: “Hinton”
- Finnish: “Hinton”
- French: “Hinton”
- German: “Hinton”
- Italian: “Hinton”
- Japanese: “ヒントン”
- Korean: “힌턴”
- Kurdish: “Hinton”
- Persian: “هینتون، آلبرتا”
- Persian: “هینتون”
- Polish: “Hinton (Kanada)”
- Polish: “Hinton”
- Portuguese: “Hinton”
- Serbian: “Hinton”
- Serbian: “Хинтон”
- Slovenian: “Hinton”
- Spanish: “Hinton”
- Swedish: “Hinton, Kanada”
- Swedish: “Hinton”
- Turkish: “Hinton”
- Ukrainian: “Гінтон”
- Urdu: “ہنٹن، البرٹا”
- Urdu: “ہنٹن”
- Uzbek: “Hinton”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Hinton”. Photo: Rural Health Professions Action Plan, CC BY 2.0.